'We may see an accomplice': Ex-FBI official warns Barr could try to indict Obama team to win the 2020 election

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace poured cold water on the latest Republican talking points about the tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory they've concocted called Obamagate.

Speaking with former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi and former White House acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, Wallace noted that if the Trump team tries to go after Barack Obama, they're going to end up taking down some Republicans along with them.

"The person who warned Donald Trump not to put Mike Flynn on any of the lists on key national security posts wasn't a Democrat, it wasn't Obama," recalled Wallace. "It was Chris Cristie, Chris Christie was fired as head of the transition for not putting Mike Flynn on the list for any important national security position. Fact, Chris Christie was punished by Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, they dumped the transition books which didn't have Mike Flynn's name on any of the lists because he, too, shared concerns about whether Mike Flynn was suitable for a national security position. So, there's a pretty inconvenient little wrinkle in Donald Trump's fantastical delusions about Mike Flynn and Chris Christie didn't think he belonged in a national security post, either."

In an NBC News editorial, Figliuzzi wrote that the president is likely headed into a campaign where he will be flinging conspiracy theories aimlessly in effort to save his own skin.

"We're heading toward a period of time that's going to be quite ugly. Where he's going to certainly imply and want people to infer that President Obama and Vice President Biden engaged in a conspiracy against him to gin up the Russia hoax and the case against Flynn," said Figliuzzi. "On a worst-case scenario, we may see an accomplice in this mess, the attorney general of the United States who might go to attempt to charge or smear in some official way, perhaps even to call a grand jury, where we see former officials, prior administration officials attacked, in an attempt to ruin them."

While there's no precedent of a new president indicting the previous president, that would set a complicated precedent if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in 2020. If Trump tries to indict Obama, it would open the door for Biden to indict Trump if he wins.

He went on to explain how important to focus on the "fact vs. fiction" aspect of the story and call out the conspiracy theories. Both the Federalist article and Trump are clutching their pearls about "the notion that because the intelligence community was briefing the Obama administration" while he was still president, explained Figliuzzi. Because "Obama said this concerns me because we're about to give classified briefings to the incoming administration, please tell me whether we can trust Flynn to give them the intelligence briefings, the intel community went out and looked at this." That's the so-called "scandal" the White House thinks is such a problem.

Meanwhile, the latest Harvard-Harris poll shows that 53 percent of Americans still believe what the Christopher Steele Dossier said was accurate. A Pew poll cited 72 percent of Americans anticipate Russia or some other foreign government will likely try to hack the 2020 election. That while 51 percent of the Americans surveyed who said Trump had encouraged election interference, the NPR/PBS/Marist Poll revealed.

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